Shock decline in market share for leading programme!!!
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was once the leader of the pack. IE was one of the most popular internet browsers, beating Netscape back in the 1990’s. IE continued to enjoy its popularity, particularly as Microsoft intended to become a monopoly as far as internet browsing was concerned.
However this has all changed in 2010. Statistics from NetApplications reveal that the market share of Internet explorer fell to a dismal 59.9%, compared to a massive, 95% only seven years ago. At the same time, Mozilla Firefox, a close competitor, has seen a rise in its market share to 24.5% as well as Google Chrome, who may only have currently 6.7% which rose from a mimiscule 1.7% just last year.
So, why did this happen? This could be due to the fact that there are good, even better alternatives for browsers in the market now, Jeffrey Mann, an analyst from Gatner said . “There are more viable alternatives now. Google has been advertising and there are more people using Macs and Apple’s Safari. There is just a great awareness that there are alternatives.”
It seems that Internet Explorer’s credability has gone down the plughole, as users on bestinternetbrowser.com seem to lambest Internet Explorer with one person writing “IE simply sucks.”IE also has an average rating of less than two stars for speed, support and security. Overall, IE got 19 negative reviews, with only FIVE positive reviews when its competitors had three or less negative reviews and its positive reviews reaching double figures. Each of the other leading internet browsers, Safari, Opera, Firefox and Chrome have at least four stars for Speed, features, security, ease of use and support. Reviewers ranged from hr software specialists, to IT professionals, and everyday users at home.
Microsoft also suffered due to new EU regulations, which saw customers being able to choose which browser they want, from a choice of 12. Back in 2003, there was much less market activity, but now consumers get to choose, and it is even easy to chop and change browsers, some people even use more than one browser, but it seems that the population of internet users unite on one thing-their hate for IE.
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